Tuesday, August 28, 2012

"The New Normal" banned by Utah TV station

"The New Normal" banned by Utah TV station
CBS News
(CBS News) NBC Utah affiliate KSL-TV has pulled the upcoming Ryan Murphy sitcom "The New Normal" from its fall lineup, calling the series as "inappropriate on several dimensions." Pictures: Fall TV preview 2012. The show, which follows a mother who ...
CBS News

Star strikes back at 'New Normal' snub
New York Post
Actress Ellen Barkin started a fire on Twitter over the weekend when she blasted a Utah TV station decision not to air NBC's opcoming comedy “The New Normal,” about a gay couple who adopts a baby. “Shame on u @kslcom,” read the first in a series of ...

'The New Normal' Pulled from NBC Utah Affiliate
Gather.com
The New Normal is apparently not normal enough for television viewers in Utah. The NBC affiliate in Utah, KSL-TV, is refusing to air the brand new fall series from Glee creator Ryan Murphy over what they believe to be offensive content, but is the move ...

Jackie Hoffman Lands Role on NBC's THE NEW NORMAL
Broadway World
TVGuide.com reports that Jackie Hoffman has just landed a "possibly recurring" role on the upcoming NBC comedy series THE NEW NORMAL. The comedian will portray the mother of Justin Bartha's David On the show. She joins fellow Broadway veterans ...

NeNe Leakes Lands In The Wall Street Journal!
Reality Tea (blog)
NeNe had a season-long guest role on the hit show Glee and starting this fall she will be a regular castmember on Ryan Murphy's new sitcom The New Normal. According to the WSJ: “The divide between reality shows and more-traditional scripted series has ...

GLAAD slams Utah station for refusing to air 'The New Normal'
Digital Spy UK
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has condemned a Utah station for its decision not to broadcast Ryan Murphy's new NBC series The New Normal. Yesterday (August 26), it was reported that NBC's Utah affiliate KSL-TV pulled the ...

When Visitation Lasts All Summer
New York Times (blog)
My bad. It didn't work, and I find myself constantly adjusting, and quite frankly, not very well, to my new new normal: traveling to Britain every summer and returning alone and often in tears as I leave my children behind — 3,458 miles and a vast ...New York Times (blog)

Yes to excellence - we can
Jamaica Observer
It's easy to blame "govament" but we need to take stock of ourselves first. The epidemic of mediocrity that is sweeping this country is the biggest threat to our economic well-being. Do you see what is happening, folks? Underperformance is the new normal.

'Expendables 2' packs a punch. Viacom packs in more commercials.
Los Angeles Times
KSL-TV, NBC's affiliate in Salt Lake City, is not going to carry the network's new sitcom "The New Normal"when it premieres next month. The show from the "Glee" creator is about a gay couple adopting a baby. Per Salt Lake City's Deseret News, the ...

Rupert Murdoch tells Prince Harry's critics to give him a break
Detroit Free Press
Jeff Simpson, the CEO of Bonneville International, the parent company to Salt Lake City's NBC affiliate KSL-TV, said his network won't air "The New Normal" when it debuts next month because the content of the sitcom might be too extreme to Church of ...

Authoritarian Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism
CounterPunch
Neoliberalism, or what might be called casino capitalism, has become the new normal. Unabashed in its claim to financial power, self-regulation, and its survival of the fittest value system, neoliberalism not only undercuts the formative culture ...

Utah station won't air NBC's 'New Normal' – The Marquee Blog - CNN
By breeharecnn
If all publicity is good publicity, Ryan Murphy's new NBC series, "The New Normal," is basking in it. Earlier this summer, the organization One Million Moms launched a boycott against the sitcom, about two partners hoping to have a baby, ...
The Marquee Blog

The New Normal S01E00 Sneak Peek 720p WEB DL AAC2.0 H.264 ...
By MAXi
P2P group NTb released the Preview of the upcoming NBC network's new series “The New Normal”. stars Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha as a gay couple who hire a surrogate (Scottish actress Georgia King), with Ellen Barkin as her ...
Releaselog | RLSLOG.net

Utah NBC Affiliate Won't Carry Ryan Murphy's 'The New Normal,'
By Dustin Rowles
According to EW, a Utah NBC affiliate, the same station that refused to air The Playboy Club last year, will not air Ryan Murphy's new sitcom, The New Normal. The New Normal is about a happy gay couple who hire a midwestern waitress to ...
UPROXX » TV

'The New Normal' banned by TV station
By -NO AUTHOR-
(CBS News) NBC Utah affiliate KSL-TV has pulled the upcoming Ryan Murphy sitcom “The New Normal” from its fall lineup, calling the series as “inappropriate on several dimensions.” The show, which follows a mother who serves as a ...
WND

Mormon-Owned NBC Affiliate Refuses to Air Gay-Friendly Sitcom ...
By Neetzan Zimmerman
The Salt Lake City, Utah-based television station KSL, an major NBC affiliate owned by the Mormon Church, has announced that it will not air the Peacock Network's upcoming comedy series The New Normal due to its "inappropriate content."
Gawker

Smells Like News: Utah Affiliate Refuses to Air The New Normal ...
By sysop
But the NBC affiliate has drawn its objectionable line at The New Normal, an upcoming sitcom from Glee creator Ryan Murphy that focuses on a gay couple and the family of its surrogate mother. “For our brand, this program simply feels ...
Smells Like News

Scars
By marshallramsey
I suppose, the cliche “new normal” probably would be more appropriate. You know it as well as I do that Katrina changed us. And if you don't believe me, watch how we're acting now that a hurricane entered the Gulf of Mexico. Enter Isaac.
Marshall Ramsey

Mohamed El-Erian: The Next 'New Normal' - CNBC
Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and co-CIO at PIMCO, says Paul Ryan's definition of " misguided ...video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000109760Joining us from newport beach . . . mohamed el erian, pimco's ceo and co-cio. Mohamed . . . let's talk about paul ryan . . . seems to be taking your phrase and using it. Is he using it properly? I saw him say we're here in the new normal. . . . we view it much more as a policy response that has been too cyclical, too partial, and too short term. So that's the key thing, andrew, i think, is to focus on what he said at the end of that speech. he said if we're not careful, for the first time in a very long time, our children's generation will be worse off than ours and that is a key issue that hopefully the politicians will focus on. . . . but the signal to the politicians is . . . you've got to act because our problems are getting embedded in the structure of the economy. . . .